An Ounce of Prevention is Worth Ten Thousand Pounds of Cure.

In the last five decades, medicine has found solutions for many of the diseases that shorten American lives, such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes. However, the solutions themselves are pretty strenuous. Surgery, drugs, radiation, daily injections and chemotherapy top the list.

At LifeWorks Wellness Center, we're all about prevention. It's what we live and breathe, all day long. Yes, we can fix you up if you get sick or hurt. But what we're really about is finding out exactly what may stand between you and a long healthy life. We can find out, even when the damaging condition has not made itself known, and wouldn't until it brought a person to their knees. Prevention means never having to take advantage of medicine's modern miracles.

Sometimes the repair action is fairly simple: A nutritional program may be all that is needed to set things right. And sometimes the answer is more elusive. Many of our patients come to us when other doctors have failed to give them what they wished for most: vigorous health. One of our greatest joys is to see someone finally able to get out of bed, out of a wheelchair, and back into joyful life.

The Key to our Success
At LifeWorks, the Key is diagnosis. And the key to fast and effective diagnosis is our sophisticated battery of tests. The results of these tests give our practitioners exactly what they need to get the message your body would really like to send, if only it could. With this full battery of tests, we can usually see the complete picture of your health at its most fundamental, cellular level. Treatment programs become simpler, more direct and efficient, and they can actually cost much less than programs developed without testing.

Diagnostic Lab Tests:

Overall Physical Health and Risk Factors
The Detailed Health Screen is actually a series of nineteen or twenty tests. (Men receive an additional test for prostate health.) The results of this screen paint a comprehensive picture of overall health and specific points of future risk. The functions of most of the major and critical systems are represented: liver, kidney, thyroid, and pancreas function, heart health risks, a thorough review of blood health and function, and tests for the presence of infections.

Digestive Integrity Analysis
Your stomach and intestines are the "machines" that turn your meals into absorbable nutrients or fail to do so. Too little digestive enzymes or too few friendly bacteria can not only impede digestion and lead to malnutrition (no matter how well you eat!) they can also cripple your ability to fight disease and infections. The Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis evaluates the entire scope of your gastrointestinal function: digestion, absorption, bacterial balance, parasites and immune status.

Cellular Nutritional Analysis
Even if you eat well and take supplements, you can be poorly nourished if your cells can't utilize the raw materials. Also, your body's special needs affected by age, lifestyle, stress and developing illness create higher nutritional demands. Find out what's happening to the nutritional supply inside your cells - where it really matters. The Intracellular Vitamin Analysis (Intra = within, inside) reaches all the way into your white blood cells and sees just how well nourished they really are, compared to the supply your body needs. The precise program to correct any deficiencies can help your body fight degenerative processes such as arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes, to name a few.

Breast Cancer Predisposition
A woman's body creates several types of estrogen. Some of these estrogens undergo a further conversion. One step in this conversion process can produce either a dangerous product that can help tumors grow and spread, or it can produce a different product that helps protect against cancer. Each particle of estrogen has sixteen points to which an oxygen/hydrogen molecule can link. If it links to site 16, a woman is at increased risk for breast cancer. If it links to site 2, she has more protection against breast cancer. A simple urine test can determine the ratio of site-2 conversion to site-16 conversion that's occurring in your body. This test is called the 2/16 OH Estrogen Ratio (OH = oxygen/hydrogen).

Liver Detoxification Challenge
Your entire defense mechanism against environmental, infectious, food-borne or drug toxins is centralized in your liver. The stronger your liver function, the purer your blood, the more resistant you are to disease and infection. The Detoxification Profile measures your liver's ability to eliminate two commonly encountered toxic substances: caffeine and aspirin. The results of this test reveal how well your liver meets this challenge, showing weaknesses that may indicate or precede illness, sometimes years before indications would be apparent in regular blood tests.

Essential Mineral Analysis
A detailed mineral aalysis of the blood, called the red blood cell mineral anaysis, can helpprovide the vital missing link of information that may help us to correctly evaluate and treat depression, muscle spasms, osteoporosis, inflammation, hypoglycemia, anemia, diabetes, vision loss, hearing disorders, insomnia, irritability and many other conditions

24-Hour Hormone Analysis
Hormone imbalances have been linked to a wide variety of symptoms and illnesses in both men and women. A 24-hour hormone analysis provides a more accurate picture than a single sample, as hormones are often excreted in sudden bursts. With the Comprehensive Hormone Profile, both men and women can discover the hidden cause for fatigue, growth and weight problems, high blood pressure, sleep disorders, headaches and decreased sexual drive, among other problems.

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